What: Solid state disks (SSDs) provide far superior response time and IOPS when compared totraditional hard disk drives (HDDs). This session will review the performance of DS8000 withSSDs. Basic SSD performance metrics will be provided as well as a discussion of Easy TierAutomatic mode. Benchmarks using mixed storage pools running Easy Tier Automatic modewill be reviewed, including the latest results with the recently announced Easy Tier II. Analysisof customer data using Easy Tier monitoring mode will be discussed. Comparisons betweenEasy Tier and EMC FAST will be made.